Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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alt-water rivers, and made a bargain with the native chiefs of thelocality to purchase a large area of ground, more than one thousandtwo hundred square miles, for which he paid a few shirts and blankets,some sugar, flour, and other trifles—probably not a hundred dollarsworth altogether. The Government afterwards set aside his purchase,but paid to Batman and his partners the sum of £7000 for the relin-quishment of their claim. Batman returned immediately to Tasmania to procure a fresh sup-ply of provisions, and near the end of August, 1835, during his absence,another adventurer, John Fawkner, landed on the banks of the Yarrafrom the schooner Enterprise^ and made his camp in the forest on thebank of the stream. He brought five men, two horses, two pigs, onecat, and three kangaroo-dogs; and this was the colony that foundedthe present city of Melbourne. Fawkner may be fairly considered thefounder of Melbourne, as the permanent occupation of the site dates THE FOUNDERS OF MELBOURNE. 453
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THE FOUNDING OK MELBOURNE, AUGUST, 1835. from the day he landed from his schooner. But Batmans part of theaffair should not be forgotten; he returned in the following April, andsettled on what is now a part of the city. As might be expected, therewas a bitter quarrel between Batman and Fawkner as long as both sur-vived, and it was continued by their descendants. The inhabitants of Melbourne have duly honored Batman by erect-ing in the old cemetery of that city an appropriate monument to hismemory. He died in 1839, before the city had grown to much impor-tance though it was giving good promise for the future. At the timeof Batmans death there were four hundred and fifty houses, seventyshops, and three thousand inhabitants in Melbourne, and the first shiphad sailed for London with a cargo of four hundred bales of wool. Frank and Fred learned all this before taking their first stroll alongthe streets of Melbourne on the morning after their arrival. They also 45i THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUS

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